Travel guide



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TRAVEL GUIDE Filed April 22,- 1935 -w yw Q M 220/2544 Patented June 30, 1936 I t UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE 2,045,822 TRAVEL GUIDE Harry R. Banks, Creston, Iowa Application April 22, 1935, Serial No. 17,674 5Claims. (0140-70) The object of my invention is to provide a. ent instance,Ihave shown two radially elongated travel guide of simple, durable and inexpensive penings l4 and I5.

construction adapted to indicate in an attractive I pre e ab y also p v de in l w th these sight form the mileage between certain towns and the p n ngs a pointer the like 5 route numbers for the automobile roads to be v Suitably rotatably mounted behind the disc l used. a is a disc ll of greater diameter. The mechanical More particularly, it is my object to provide a mounting of these discs and their mechanical sign, comprising a fixed member, preferably in relation to each other willsbe later more fully disc form, with a second disc rotatably mounted referred to.

10 in a proper relation to the first disc. The first The disc I! has on that part of its face pro- 10 disc is provided with the name of the town and .i e ng bey d t e d "I a ie Of radially with a sight opening or openings. The second arranged names of towns, as indicated at I8. disc is provided adjacent its periphery with the Radially inwardly from the name of each town, names of a. number of other towns. Radially in- I provide indicating characters l9 to show the wardly from such names are the indicating charoificial road numbers of the automobile route 15 acters to show the mileage between the town on tween the town on the first disc In and the the first disc and the respective towns on the ali ed t w 3 o he Second disc H. second disc. -The discs are so arranged that the Spaced r d y inw y f m the in n second dis may b mo d t position aligned characters I!) are further indicating characters with the sight opening of th first i h 20 to show-the mileage between the town named 20 Y upon the proper mileage and route numbers ill on the first disc and the particular town on the appear through the sight opening or openings. second disc.

Still another object is to provide a novel means us or us atio there is shown on the for mounting the discs, on with r lati t th disc H on the face thereof and outside the disc other, III the name Corydon which is the name of a 25 With these and other bjects in vi my i town in Iowa. Radially inwardly from the name vention consists in the construction, arrangement Q Y there pp 0n e ace of the and combination f th vario parts of my disc I! the numerals-3460-3. These are the travel guide whereby t objects contemplated ofllcial numbers of the roads to be traveled in are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, going from Cerydon t0 Ottumwa, from O 30 pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the e to C d y the shortest u e. ese oad accompanying drawing, in whi h; indicating characters are shown at l9.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a travel guide Radially i w y from t e characters I9 is embodying my invention, the numeral 69 which represents the mileage 3.; Figure 2 is an enlarged, front elevation of a between Corydon and Ottumwa- 35 part of the travel guide, parts being broken away The Parts r so arranged that the disc I] may in order to illustrate the construction of the be rotated to brlng n n f t e towns shown guide, on the face thereof to position in line with the Figure 3 is a detailed, sectional view taken on sight openi and r p the n me 40 the line 33 of Figure 2; and- Des Moines is shown in Figure 2 inline with 40 Figure 4 is a perspective view of parts f th the sight opening. When the disc I1 is in that travel guide, certain portions thereof being broken position, t pp p e c aracters 9 and 20 away. will then be visible through the respective sight For advertising purposes, I call my travel guide, p ni s l an 4- the B-Sure Travel Guide. Thus it will be seen in the present instance that 45 It comprises an annular disc-1ike member lo, when the name, Des Moines is in line with the preferably made of sheet metal. On the face of sight openings, the numerals 34 and "60 apthe disc I0, there may be provided suitable ad- P r t ou h the sight op and Show to vertising material as indicated at II. I preferably the user what roads he' can best use in traveling also provide in a radial arrangement the name between Des Moines and Ottumwa. The fi ure 50 of a. town, as at l2. This is preferably used with 89" appears through the sight opening l4 and the word "From as indicated at I3. shows the mileage between those two towns.

In suitable relation to the name of the town Thus the milea d he dist nce between and preferably radially outward therefrom, I Ottumwa. and any of the towns on the disc I], provide asight opening or openings. In the pres-- together with information as to the proper roads 55 to be taken in traveling between such towns may be readily ascertained by turning the disc I! until the name of the particular town thereon is in line with the sight openings on the disc l0.

It is, of course, important that the two discs be so mounted in relation to each other that the disc III will be fixed and the disc ll rotatable.

It is also important that the disc II should be rotated easily and yet that it should remain in any position to which it is adjusted.

For, attaining these results, a screw-threaded bolt 2| is extended through the disc II), which has the hole 22 provided therefor. The disc I! has a substantially larger central hole 23. Fitted into the hole 23 is a washer 24, which fits in such a way as to permit the free rotation of the disc II. The washer 24 has an opening 25 and is mounted on the bolt 2|. The washer 24 is of greater thickness than the disc 20. Back of the disc 20 on'the bolt 2| is a washer 28. The bolt 2| may be mounted on a bracket 21 which in turn may be supported on a post or wall 28.

It will be understood that the bolt 2| has a nut 28.

It will be observed that when the parts are assembled as shown for instance in Figure 3, the nut may be tightened, and thereupon the disc I will be tightlygripped, so that it will not be normally rotatable. 0n the other hand, owing to the fact that the washer 24 is of greater thickness than the disc 2 the disc 20 may be rotated. In order to prevent accidental rotation of the disc 20 and to hold it many position to which it may be adjusted and also to keep it from rattling, and further, to prevent rubbing of the discs and consequent obliteration of the characters on the disc I1, I punch pro.- jections 30 from the disc I ll near the periphery thereof, and toward the disc l1, thereby providing means for frictionally engaging the disc II.

It will be seen that there is thus provided a means by which the mileage between one town and a large number of 'other towns can be readily determined. The guide has enough display features to be attractive to the public; The mechanical structure is simple, durable and emcient. I I It is obvious that changes may be made in the details of the construction and arrangement and that the indicating characters may be such as are adapted for any selected series of towns, and it is my purpose to cover by my claims, any modified forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents, which may be reasonably included within their scope.

The parts may be of any material adaptable for the purpose. The sizes of the sight openings may be varied as may seem advisable and-other changes may be made without departing from the'spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the kind described, a front disc, a rear disc of greater diameter, the front disc having a central opening, the second disc having a larger central opening, a washer arranged in the opening of the second disc and being of greater thickness than the second disc, a bolt extended through said openings, and through said washer, a washer on said bolt back of the second disc, a nut on said bolt, whereupon upon tightening of the nut, the first disc will be gripped between the head of the bolt and the first-named washer and held against rotation, whereas the second disc may be rotated, and parts projecting from the first disc near the periphery thereof for frictionally engaging the second disc.

2. In a device of the kind described, a front disc, a rear disc of greater diameter, the front disc having a central opening, the second disc having a larger central opening, a washer arranged in the opening of the second disc and being of greater thickness than, the-second disc, a bolt 'extended through said openings, and through said washer, a washer on said bolt back of the second disc, a nut on said bolt, whereupon upon tightening of the nut, the first disc will be gripped between the head of the bolt and the first-named washer and held against rotation, whereas the second. disc may be rotated, said discs having parts near their peripheries in frictional e agement.

3. In a device of the class described, a front disc having characters thereon representing a town and having a sight opening, a second rearward disc arranged concentrically therewith for" rotation, and being of larger diameter and having names of towns arranged thereon on the part rotation, and being of greater diameter than the first disc, said second disc having names of towns on that portion projecting beyond the first disc and having characters representing distances and characters representing travel routes arranged radially inwardly from the names of the respective towns, so that when the name of a town is radially in line with the sight opening, the ap: propriate characters representing distances and representing travel routes are visible through the opening.

' 5. In a travel guide of the kind described, a

fixed disc having thereon the name of a town and provided with radially aligned sight openings and having adjacent to the respective openings characters representing mileage and characters representing routes of travel respectively, an adiacent concentric disc behind the first disc mounted for rotation and being of greater diameter than the first disc, said second disc having names of towns on that portion projecting beyond the first disc and having characters representing distances and characters representing travel routes arranged radially inwardly from the names of the respective towns so that when the name of a town on the second disc is radially in line with the sight openings, the appropriate characters representing distances are visible through one of the sight openings and the appropriate characters representing travel routes through the other opening.

HARRY R. BANKS.

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